I live in a high density, heavily populated neighborhood called North Park, in the city of San Diego. It's kind of considered a trendy area, lots of people will come to our area to enjoy dinner at a restaurant or a cocktail at a bar. This is why we have such parking problems.
Anyways, I went to my nearest CVS for the cheap Swiffer wet pad refills and imagine my surprise when I walked into the Household section and I saw almost all of the household products locked inside an anti-theft cases.
Thankfully, the store didn't have anymore of the Swiffer wet pad refill 24ct and I had a follow up doctor's appointment which when I got to the appointment and I had paid my co-pay, I was informed that the doctor was running an hour behind (the doctor was probably running an hour and half behind) so I had the lady reschedule my appointment to her next available first appointment of the day. I was able to stop at the CVS near the doctor's office pick up the Swiffer pads and that particular CVS had no anti-theft cases in their Household section.
This is a quick a YouTube video that CVS testing letting customers use the CVS app to unlock the anti-theft device with your smartphone. This is a super short video only like 20 seconds long.
If they're going to go the way that Walgreens did, they might experience what Walgreens is experiencing now (steep decline in sales).
ReplyDeletePeople are not going to download an app just to unlock an item that they need. They'll just go to a different and cheaper store.
You are right that people aren't going to download an app to open the case for the laundry stuff. They can go to the corner store and get it without the hassle.
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